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Kentucky Center for Instructional Discipline (KyCID)

The mission of the Kentucky Center for Instructional Discipline is to train and support schools in the implementation of positive, proactive, and instructional strategies so students become self-disciplined, responsible, and productive members of the Commonwealth.

Dr. Randall Sprick graciously has given his permission to post two problem behaviors (aggression-verbal and/or physical and chaos- classroom out of control) and all plans listed within these two chapters. We sincerely thank him for providing this resource to the teachers of Kentucky so that they may effectively serve students with challenging behaviors.

Classroom Management Tips from CHAMPs: A Proactive and Positive Approach to Classroom Management

As part of Safe and Civil Schools newsletter, a link to a classroom management tip is provided as a resource. View several tips from Randy Sprick's CHAMPs: A Positive and Positive Approach to Classroom Management.

Utah State Office of Education: Least Restrictive Behavioral Interventions (LRBI)

An excellent resource offering handouts and video for teaching behavior management and social skills. This site is part of the Utah State Office of Education Online Academy for Staff Development.

Intervention Central

An excellent resource offering free tools and resources to help school staff and parents to promote positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all children and youth. The site was created by Jim Wright, a school psychologist from Syracuse, NY.

Project REACH

Project REACH is a National Center, funded by the Office of Special Education Programs for 5 years, to work with students with intensive social, emotional, and behavioral needs. The project is a collaborative effort between Lehigh University and the University of California, Riverside. Researched-based behavioral interventions for parents and teachers are described in detail on this Web site.

Preventing Your Rules from Falling Apart

Excerpts from Prof. Howard Seeman's book/video: Preventing Classroom Discipline Problems, 3rd Ed.: http://www.panix.com/~pro-ed

Sopris West Publishers: Safe Schools

Sopris West has many useful targeted intervention resources.

Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviors: A Guide to Intervention and Classroom Management

The Building Blocks model is practical, supported by research, and easy to implement. It identifies ten areas important to school success (the building blocks), divided into three levels: (a) the foundational level includes attention and impulse control, emotion and behavior, self-esteem, and learning environment blocks; (b) the symbolic processing and (c) memory level contains the visual, auditory, and motor skills blocks the conceptual level comprises using strategies and thinking with language and images. By Nancy Mather, Ph.D., & Sam Goldstein, Ph.D.

Facilitator's Guide: Positive Behavior Support

The Facilitator's Guide on Positive Behavioral Support provides a step-by-step process to guide teams through assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation. The goal is to assist educators, family members, and other support providers to work collaboratively to develop an understanding of circumstances affecting a student's behavior and to design interventions that lead to positive life-style changes. Written by staff of the Positive Behavioral Support Project. This project is part of the Department of Child and Family Studies of the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute at the University of South Florida, and is funded by the State of Florida

Time Out Procedures

"In an effort to provide assistance and address these concerns in a comprehensive manner, the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) is sending this information to school superintendents, directors of special education, principals, and parent resource centers to help promote effective policies for implementing appropriate uses of seclusionary time-out for all students. I encourage you to distribute this information to all staff that work with these students and to the parents of these students so that everyone involved can work cooperatively to ensure the student's educational success. " (From the letter from KDE regarding the use of seclusionary time-out)

Understanding Behavior: An Interactive Tutorial

To deal effectively with students who exhibit challenging behaviors, it is important to approach such problems from a research-validated theoretical perspective. Understanding Behavior: An Interactive Tutorial provides a basic introduction to the behavioral model. By understanding and applying the behavioral model, you will increase the likelihood of intervening successfully with problem behaviors.

Social Skill Resources

Social Skill Resources have been located and organized in this section. Links to Sopris West, Thinking Publications, Boys Town, and Research Press Web sites are provided to make it easy for you to locate the social skills program of your choice.

Functional Behavioral Assessment Resources

This area of the Behavior Home Page provides functional behavioral assessment resources.

Anger Resources

Resources that address student anger management have been organized in this section of the Behavior Home Page.

Bullying Resources

Resources that address bullying have been organized in this section of the Behavior Home Page.

Resources that address peer mediation have been organized in this section of the Behavior Home Page.

Consultation Research

This study implemented and assessed the effectiveness of using components of the Internet to provide support to three general education teachers (consultees) and three general education students who displayed challenging behaviors. A behavior consultation model was used to guide the problem solving process. A combination of the Internet (i.e., forms, e-mail, Web pages), face-to-face meetings, and direct observations provided support to general education teachers in targeting behaviors, designing interventions, evaluating interventions, facilitating on-going communication, and fading out consultation services. Results indicated three successful consultation cases, three positive teacher evaluations, and a potential time savings over traditional face-to-face consultation.